Research Principal

UPMC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, within the Translational Neuroscience Program of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, seeks a research support role in the Chung lab. The lab conducts postmortem and computational research to understand synaptic disruptions linked to working memory deficits in schizophrenia.

This grant-funded position focuses on mentoring, high-level research support, and coordinating lab activities, with responsibilities spanning

Responsibilities

• Mentor, train, and assist with supervising junior research staff.
• Provide advanced level research support for the research study.
• Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Conduct Execute postmortem studies, including expansion microscopy, nanoscale imaging and post-image processing.
• Oversee lab organization, assist with recruitment and staff supervision, and help to plan, coordinate and supervise research projects and lab experiments/procedures.
• Collect and analyze data.
• Provides operational oversight of the basic science research and instrumentation.

Job description

This position is in the laboratory of Daniel Wonjae Chung, MD, PhD, which is part of the Translational Neuroscience Program in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. The lab’s team conducts postmortem and computational research to increase our understanding of the synaptic disruptions that lead to working memory deficits in schizophrenia.

This position is grant funded.

Responsibilities:

• Mentor, train, and assist with supervising junior research staff.

• Provide advanced level research support for the research study.

• Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Conduct Execute postmortem studies, including expansion microscopy, nanoscale imaging and post-image processing.

• Oversee lab organization, assist with recruitment and staff supervision, and help to plan, coordinate and supervise research projects and lab experiments/procedures.

• Collect and analyze data.

• Provides operational oversight of the basic science research and instrumentation.